Thoughts From J8: Thoughts on life as a multiple, a survivor, and living as a human.

by Jade Miller, Robert Sommers, Esther Rohm

Thoughts From J8 is a journey with Jade Miller, a very unique and powerful suvivor’s voice. Spanning approximately 4 and a half years of her life, the collection covers a time period of deep pain, suffering, revelation and healing. Though her and her circumstances may seem rare and extreme at first, many who read her words find themselves right there with her, relating to the mundane and beautiful in their own lives. Jade walks you through what it is to live as a “multiple,” to have survived immense sexual and emotional abuse, and to look forward on a world that has given you immense pain and still strive to truly live a life worth living. This is not a collection for the faint of heart, but anyone brave enough to journey with Jade will find their lives enriched and their world opened wide to see things anew. Fellow Survivors will find empathy, hope, and a friend to grieve with. All others will find a perspective on the world that they may not have known was there, but that they needed all along.

743 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 25, 2018

About the author

Jade Miller was born in east Tennessee. She is a survivor of ritual abuse and human trafficking, peer support worker, trauma recovery support group facilitator and author.

Jade has been writing since she was a young child, illustrating her own stories and winning writing awards in elementary school all the way through high school. She studied writing and editing in college, and made her publishing debut with the first Dear Little Ones book in 2015. Two additional Dear Little Ones books followed, as well as an ebook on attachment theory. Her books have been translated into several languages and have received international attention and praise from trauma survivors and therapists. She is also working on her first novel and a memoir.

Jade believes that the idea of one single cohesive “personality” is mostly a social construct. She suspects that universal multiplicity is much more likely – the concept that every person is a collection of self-states, and their upbringing and life experiences determine the level of awareness and cooperation between those self-states.

Jade is a peer support worker to people who identify as multiple or plural and/or have Dissociative Identity Disorder. She also offers education for mental health professionals drawing from her lived experiences and a private social media group for other multiples. Learn more about working with her one on one at www.peersupportformultiples.com. Jade’s blog can be found at www.thoughtsfromj8.com.

For more information on the Dear Little Ones books, visit www.multifacetedpress.com.